Episode 001

Episode 001

Welcome to the first episode of A Kick in the Art – a podcast for artists and creatives of every kind.  Today’s episode is all about WHY Adam started this podcast and HOW it can help you breakthrough artistic barriers, develop powerful creative habits, and share more...
Why I Opened The Tear with a “Fake” Quote

Why I Opened The Tear with a “Fake” Quote

Sometimes, when writing fiction, what you think will be hard ends up being easy, and what you think will be easy, ends up being hard. Little did I know when I found the perfect quote to open The Tear that it would take me down a rabbit hole in two different language...
My Favorite Week of the Year

My Favorite Week of the Year

For as long as I can remember, it has been the same–the week from Christmas through New Year’s Day has always been my favorite week of the year. It’s a week when the rest of the world is chilled. The phone rings less. The meetings are fewer and farther...
Make Space for Art

Make Space for Art

Art requires space. Too often, physical space becomes the object of our focus, for one of the best ways to stimulate the magical flow state that all creators crave is to establish supportive rituals and environments. Personally, I’m at my most creative in a quiet room...
The Path Already Taken

The Path Already Taken

Often, the choice of two paths is already behind us. Whether the path is less or more traveled is of less consequence than that the path has remained the same. No other paths are visible. We trod one foot in front of the other with an inexorable forward motion. For...